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6 days ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Mark Bergin |Louis Fernandez Jr.
The NBA Draft Lottery is set for next week in Chicago. NBA teams are vying to get the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft and the rights to select Duke phenom Cooper Flagg. The draft lottery is set for 7 p.m. ET Monday, and it airs on ESPN. The NBA Draft is scheduled for June 25-26 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
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6 days ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Mark Bergin |Louis Fernandez Jr.
WRAL's Mark Bergin and Louis Fernandez discussed the best NBA team fits for Duke phenom Cooper Flagg. The discussion comes before Monday night's NBA Draft Lottery, which determines which team gets the No. 1 pick and the rights to draft Flagg. It's Another edition of WRAL Triangle at 2. I'm Mark Bergen. He is Louis Fernandez.
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1 month ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Louis Fernandez Jr. |Mark Bergin
Duke guard Sion James spoke about the Blue Devils' 70-67 loss to Houston in the Final Four. As far as. Not exactly sure, um. Uh, of course, they tightened up on defense. I felt like we still got OK looks. I wouldn't, I'd have to watch to be able to tell you exactly. It's kind of hard reaction. I think it was some of the most fun I've ever had playing basketball, and it breaks my heart because um I wanted to finish the deal.
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1 month ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Louis Fernandez Jr. |Mark Bergin
Duke freshman Cooper Flagg will leave this basketball season with the biggest individual award in the country. Flagg was announced as the men's winner of the John R. Wooden Award on Saturday ahead of Duke's Final Four game against the Houston Cougars. Flagg is the fourth freshman to win the award on the men's side. The first since Duke freshman Zion Williamson in the 2018-19 season. The other two players to win the award as freshman are Anthony Davis and Kevin Durant.
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1 month ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Louis Fernandez Jr. |Mark Bergin
Duke freshmen Khaman Maluach and Kon Knueppel spoke with reporters on Friday ahead of the Blue Devils' Final Four game against the Houston Cougars. Yeah, um, I, I didn't know him really at all. He texted me like the week before I was gonna get on campus, but I didn't, you know, you met him obviously on the visit and stuff, but I didn't really keep in contact or anything.
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1 month ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Louis Fernandez Jr. |Mark Bergin
Kelly Flagg and her husband, Ralph, spoke Friday about their excitement for Duke's game on Saturday against Houston. and you know you're gonna be in that limelight and spotlight a lot so in order we knew that he was gonna need those personal you know traits in order to to get that far with that, you know, being in the on the news all the time or having somebody stick it, you know, it's just, it's just part of the deal when you go that's why you go to Duke.
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1 month ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Louis Fernandez Jr. |Mark Bergin
Tags: Final Four, Cooper Flagg, Duke sports, Duke basketball, March Madness, NCAA Tournament, college basketball
Kelly Flagg and her husband, Ralph, spoke Friday about their excitement for Duke's Final Four game on Saturday against Houston.
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1 month ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Louis Fernandez Jr. |Mark Bergin
Cooper Flagg becomes just the fourth freshman to win the award, joining fellow Blue Devil, Zion Williamson (2019) along with Kentucky's Anthony Davis (2012) and Texas' Kevin Durant (2007). THE REST IS HISTORY THAT'S TAKING UP FOR THE LITTLE GUY KNOWS SO WELL IN ABOUT 24 HOURS. DUKE WILL TAKE ON HOUSTON IN THE FINAL 4 WRAL SPORTS REPORTER LUIS FERNANDEZ JOINS US FROM SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. SO AS WE KNOW, START FRESHMAN COOPER FLAGG IS A REALLY, REALLY GOOD TODAY WAS A BIG REMINDER OF THAT.
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1 month ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Mark Bergin |Louis Fernandez Jr.
WRAL's Mark Bergin and Louis Fernandez previewed Saturday night's Final Four game between the Duke Blue Devils and the Houston Cougars. It's another edition of the WREL Daily download and WREL triangle into the Final Four edition. I'm Mark Bergen, he's Louis Fernandez. Louis Duke is in the Final Four for the first time under John Shire as a head coach.
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1 month ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Louis Fernandez Jr. |Chris Lea
Duke grad student guard Sion James speaks on the difference with this Duke team since its last matchup against Arizona at the beginning of the season. Um, first off, you, of course, you guys went against Arizona earlier this year and it's different because it's there at Arizona, but you're, uh, you've done this a couple times in UCC one of us a team for a second time. What's it like to, to, to get uh, prepare for?
